A Short History of the Pentagon Wasting Your Money

A Short History of the Pentagon Wasting Your Money - FPIF

• Why has waste at the Pentagon been so hard to rein in? Simple: The military-industrial complex profits from waste.
• The Pentagon spent $6 billion on not auditing itself, according to the Project on Government Oversight. 

From spending $150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in Afghanistan to blowing $2.7 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesn’t work, the latest revelations of waste at the Pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades.
Other hot-off-the-presses examples would include the Army’s purchase of helicopter gears worth $500 each for $8,000 each and the accumulation of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons components that will never be used.
And then there’s the one that would have to be everyone’s favorite Pentagon waste story: the spending of $50,000 to investigate the bomb-detecting capabilities of African elephants. (And here’s a shock: they didn’t turn out to be that great!)
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